Bāle
Solomon Gebreyes
Names
ባሌ፡↗ normalized: Bāle↗ alt: ባሊ፡↗ normalized: Bāli↗ alt: ባሌ፡↗ normalized: Bāāle↗ Dāwro↗ Sarkā↗ Hadiyya↗ ʾAdal↗ Dāwro↗
ባሌ፡gez
alt: ባሊ፡gez
alt: ባሌ፡gez
History
history: The medieval state of Bāle was bordered by the medieval Muslim states of Dāwro↗ and Sarkā↗ in the north, Hadiyya↗ in the west , ʾAdal↗ and Dāwro↗ in the east and huge grazing ground of the Oromo↗ pastoralist in the south. It came to existence as a Muslim state in the 11th and 13th centuries. The history of the Muslim state of Bāle linked to the history of Ḥusayn↗ , the great early 13th century standard bearer of Islam in Bāle. The Muslim states of Bāle was famous for its cotton cloth weaving industry, and its foreign traders, including Arabs and Persians. Like other Muslim states of the southern Ethiopia, Bāle was conquered by ʿAmda Ṣǝyon I↗ in the fourteenth century and became part of the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia. Of all Muslim states of southern Ethiopia, it was Bāle that seems to have shaped the course of the early histroy Oromo↗ . Historical Bāle was the original home of primeval Oromo↗ groups that were engaged in a mixed economy.
Secondary Bibliography
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Solomon Gebreyes Beyene 2016. Chronicle of King Gälawdewos (1540-1559): Critical Edition and Annotated Translation PhD Dissertation, Hamburg: Universität Hamburg (2016).
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Conzelman, W. El., ed., 1895. Chronique de Galâwdêwos (Claudius) roi d’Éthiopie, Bibliothèque de l’École pratique des hautes études, Sciences philologiques et historiques, 104 (Paris: Librairie Émile Bouillon, Éditeur, 1895).
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Mohammed Hassen 2003. ‘Bale’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 458b–459a.
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Ficquet, É. 2007. ‘Ḥusayn’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, III (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2007), 92a–93b.
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Solomon Gebreyes Beyene, S. 2015. ‘The Chronicle of Emperor Gälawdewos (1540-1559): a source on Ethiopia’s mediaeval historical geography’, in A. Bausi, A. Gori, D. Nosnitsin, and E. Sokolinski, eds, Essays in Ethiopian Manuscript Studies: Proceedings of the International Conference Manuscripts and Texts, Languages and Contexts: the Transmission of Knowledge in the Horn of Africa, Hamburg, 17–19 July 2014, Supplement to Aethiopica, 4 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015), 109–118. page 109-118
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Huntingford, G. W. B. 1989. The Historical Geography of Ethiopia From the First Century AD to 1704, ed. R. Pankhurst, Fontes historiae africanae, Series Varia, 4 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989). page 85, 86, 94, 95, 101, 102, 106, 117, 118, 121, 123, 127, 131, 137, 142, 248
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- Solomon Gebreyes Solomon Gebreyes: Complete record on 7.8.2017
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: harmonized typology based on Eugenia indication in Issue 48. on 27.4.2016
- Pietro Maria Liuzzo Pietro Maria Liuzzo: Created file from google spreadsheet on 21.3.2016
- Eugenia Sokolinski Eugenia Sokolinski: CREATED: place on 9.2.2016
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